Poole left site about 1800 for a wet difficult journey to Portsmouth Docks building fencing fallen of transport onto motorway ### A long sit on the docks boarding about 2230. Straight to bed
Ferry a bumpy ride going round Brittany then not to bad.
Santander up at 0500 for breakfast then left the docks no new check in place yet straight out no search and onto the motorway for a 5 hour drive to Zaragosa booked in and the a couple of walks to Mercadona super market to get some food.
Sorry about the blue sky in the above pictures XX
Barcelona only a 2hour 45 mins. drive today but raining at 0900 before leaving the site. Arrived at site about 1300 booked in and got set up good pitch so did my MERRY CHRISTMAS with some old leaves.
Van washed carpets cleaned toilet cleaned just washing to do then ready to go to the ship.
This flag has its own guard.
This flag needs a few more than above!
Love these.
Coffee in town then just chilling 2 degrees overnight in the van. Up to the docks again forgot how many pubs here and noticed a good place to keep your bike to avoid theft.
2 1/2 hour drive down to Poole today stopping for coffee at a Roadchef I forgot how bad these are but was reminded when I tried to use my free drink due to the high prices could not use costa card reader does not work (heard this one before)! no bags for tiffin had to go get some no brown sugar.
Bus into town was held up in a que so missed my bus back (only one an hour. Noticed the same Polar bears as last year must come back every Christmas. Hope I have a better day tomorrow. XX
Decided to catch the bus into Cheltenham before leaving for Cirencester they didn’t let me down hit the kerb with back wheels 3 times on a 10 mins. drive cool eh!
Good drive down some shopping then the sun came out lovely so a walk into Cirencester for an hour walk about love this pubs name SOME WHERE ELSE.
This was a bank earlier its now a Corning Bakery shop.
There is a snowman trail in town so will try to find some tomorrow.
Had a bit of trouble booking in took a printout of a voucher for a free night and they said a printout is not acceptable ???? Decided to do some washing one of the driers here has been out of order for 2 years ???? The good thing I bumped into some friends from Stratford that I haven’t seen for a year (lovely)
Checked the bus time on the internet left the site to catch the bus into Gloucester the time table was different at the bus stop so decided to go to Cheltenham again crossed the road and the bus arrived at the stop Ugh! missed it ! had another look around in town passing the ice rink.
Some new graffiti on the way back.
After lunch caught the bus to Gloucester and it broke down just outside town so went back to the site for lunch and shower. Noticed the services area has turned into a tool shed as well ?
Caught the bus into Cheltenham again lots of works near the bus stop adding a bigger walk to the stop and on the way back the information board on the bus displayed the below not having much fun with buses this week if the weather is good tomorrow may get the bike out.
Walk up into Warwick this morning up to the castle and Coffee #1 spotted some wet knitting an awful rainy day again.
The fish on yesterdays blog did not like money but this one loves plastic ?
Wet drive down to Cheltenham some awful drivers causing chaos on the M5 on their mobile phones in wet weather and a large cone trying to avoid drivers UGH! On arrival caught the bus into Cheltenham having bus problems this week a new bus number has appeared and the regular bus has a different route first change in 18 years of coming here.
17 years 150000 miles of European Travel through 16 Counties
